• In Tennessee, the legislature has made Tennessee the first state to fund the placement of a school resource officer in every public school. House Bill 947 and Senate Bill 803 creates a recurring school safety grant fund of $40…
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Safety Law News for April 2nd, 2019
• In Illinois, the Illinois House passed a proposal for more campus safety resources and personnel. HB 3244 would allow school districts to impose a tax to be used exclusively for school resource officers and mental health professionals. • In…
Safety Law News for March 26, 2019
• In Mississippi, the legislature and governor enacted House Bill 1283. The new law expands funding for the Mississippi Community Oriented Policing Services in Schools program. This program implements the recommendation of the Governor’s task force that every school have…
Safety Law News for March 21, 2019
In North Carolina, House Bill 295 has been introduced to prohibit public schools and charter schools from using corporal punishment to discipline students. Corporal punishment is currently legal in 19 states. In Tennessee, House Bill 947 has been introduced by…
Safety Law News for March 19, 2019
• In Georgia, the Muscogee County School Board voted unanimously to hire a School Security Police Chief to implement changes on how school security employees handle crisis situations. • In Maryland, Baltimore lawmakers killed a proposal that would have allowed…
Safety Law News for March 8, 2019
• In Washington State, the Senate passed Senate Bill 5141, a bill regulating the training and role of school-based law enforcement. The bill adopts the community-oriented policing model, limits intervention to crimes not school discipline, creates a data collection and…
Safety Law News for March 5, 2019
• In Florida, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office is offering to move around funds from the County budget to reduce the financial burden of the school resource officer program on the school board. Last year, the school board announced its…
Safety Law News for February 26, 2019
• In North Carolina, the Boilings Springs Police Department is replacing the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office in the school resource officer program. School officials said that having local officers on campus, familiar with the community, was making a real difference.…
Safety Law News for February 12, 2019
• In California, the Salinas City Elementary School District, for the third time, rejected a school resource officer program. The 4-0 vote, with one abstention, reflects the community’s disapproval of the presence of police on their campuses. One board member…
Safety Law News for February 8, 2019.
In Washington State, officials in the Spokane Public Schools are under criticism for hiring a school resource officer who’s repeatedly been accused of using excessive force. In North Carolina, the report by the school safety committee created by the Governor…